The German politician resigned due to the child birth controversy

In the year Under the 1990 Fetus Protection Act, surrogacy in Germany is punishable by three years in prison or a fine.

For many German couples, whether same-sex or heterosexual, giving birth abroad has become an important option.

As recently as February, the SPAN party signed a resolution confirming its support for banning the practice in Germany, to stop the occurrence of “commercial or independent models that turn into commercial models”.

Span’s critics in 2010 He pointed out that when he was health minister in 2020, he rejected the liberal FDP’s calls for a surgery ban in Germany.

In the year In 2015, he wrote, “As a homosexual and as a Christian, I personally find it very difficult to warm to the idea of ​​a rented womb.”

Daniel Peters, a CDU politician in the northern state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, told tabloid Bild before Spahn’s resignation that Spahn’s position “can no longer stand and he must resign.”

Spahn said it was completely wrong to think it was right to disregard German law and act one way as a private person and choose another for his party.

Other EU countries, including France, Spain and Italy, also ban surrogacy, which includes surrogate births when a woman is unable to give birth on her own.

France’s Supreme Court has ruled that children born to biological mothers abroad are legally recognized as the children of their parents.

Meanwhile, Italy has made it illegal for Italians to give birth abroad by 2024 under a policy pursued by Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government.